Door 2 · Hire Mike — Fractional / Interim CAIO
In 100 days, your AI strategy ships — audited, in production, and reporting to the board.
Hire me as your Chief AI Officer — fractional, interim, board, or full-time — and a 100-day plan lands on your desk: an audited AI strategy, one engine in production, and a revenue line reporting to the board — with a refund-the-year clause behind it.
five chapters: what you get, the 100-day plan, the engagement models, the receipts, the fit check.
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01 · the 100-day promise
Day 30 · Day 60 · Day 90 · Day 100.
Seventy percent of AI initiatives stall before they ship — the reason is almost never the model, it is the absence of an operating model. Most CAIO hires learn that on your payroll. I have already built one and run it in production. The same plan ships on every engagement model — full-time, fractional, board, or interim. Commitment is the product; compensation is the variable.
The audit, published.
Every AI / ML / algorithmic system inventoried, scored, and board-published as a 10-slide memo. Two or three zombie pilots killed. ProofPacket discipline drafted.
Deliverable: a scored system inventory + a kill list, signed off by the CEO. The day-30 success metric is set here — it is what the refund clause measures against.
One engine, live.
The highest-ROI candidate from the audit shipped to production. Your team sees what "shipped" actually means. The board sees the first revenue line tied to AI.
Deliverable: one governed system in production with a measurable output, not a demo. This is the proof that the operating model produces, not just plans.
The discipline, installed.
ProofPacket protocol live across teams. Quarterly review cadence locked. The 12-month AI org hiring plan — roles and costs — on the CEO's desk.
Deliverable: a governance protocol your team runs without me, plus the staffing and budget plan for the org you are building.
Board readout.
One slide to the board: AI strategy · revenue line · risk line · IP line · 12-month plan.
refund-the-year clause activates here
The clause measures against the day-30 success metric. If the agreed metric is not met, the engagement fee for the year is refunded. The bar is set by you, in writing, on day 30.
The refund clause is real. It is the same plan on every model — what changes is the seat and the price, never the discipline.
02 · engagement models
Hire me for 100 days. Four ways.
Pick the seat that matches your stage. The plan is identical; the selling point behind each model is not.
click a model above — each tab reveals the selling line, the terms, and the promise for that seat.
03 · the receipts
From stalled to producing.
Anonymized by request — value only, no logos. Click any receipt for the underneath.
each card opens the underneath — the mechanism behind the number, never just a bigger card.
04 · the fit check
Paste the JD. See the fit in 10 seconds.
Drop in the role you are hiring for — or the problem you need owned. Paste the role and my AI reads it and returns the fit in ~10 seconds — an honest read on whether this is the right operator, and which engagement model fits, before you ever reach out.
Your fit read appears here — a match score, what lines up, what is missing, and the recommended next step. Paste the role and run it; no email required.
send the JD or the problem — you get a direct reply from Mike, no funnel, with a recommended engagement model.
No funnel. Reach Mike directly.
Email or text and you get a reply from Mike himself — usually same day. Tell him the seat you are filling and the problem you need owned.